One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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About the Author

Personal Background

Career Highlights

About the Novel

Introduction

A Brief Synopsis

List of Characters

Character Map

Summaries and Commentaries

Part 1: They’re Out There

Part 1: When the Fog Clears

Part 1: The New Man

Part 1: In the Glass Station

Part 1: Before Noontime

Part 1: One Christmas

Part 1: First Time for a Long, Long Time

Part 1: Come Morning

Part 1: All Through Breakfast

Part 1: There’s a Monopoly Game

Part 1: There’s Long Spells

Part 1: A Visiting Doctor

Part 1: It’s Getting Hard

Part 1: There’s a Shipment of Frozen Parts

Part 1: I Know How They Work It

Part 2: Just at the Edge of My Vision

Part 2: The Way the Big Nurse Acted

Part 2: In the Group Meetings

Part 2: Up Ahead of Me

Part 2: Whatever It Was

Part 2: They Take Me with the Acutes Sometimes

Part 2: I Remember It Was Friday Again

Part 2: Crossing the Grounds

Part 3: After That

Part 3: Two Whores

Part 4: The Big Nurse

Part 4: Up on Disturbed

Part 4: There Had Been Times

Part 4: I’ve Given What Happened Next

Character Analyses

Randle Patrick McMurphy

Nurse Ratched

Chief Bromden

Dale Harding

Billy Bibbit

Critical Essays

The Role of Women

The Film and the Novel

McMurphy as Comic Book Christ

McMurphy’s Cinematic Brothers in Rebellion

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